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Hiya all,

I am researching what i want for a new hardware setup. I will go for the MSI socket 478 Neo-Fis2R motherboard, with a Intel P4 2.8 Ghz processor. Only problem now is what memory. After talking reading, i was told Corsair will be my best choice, so after going to the site i came up with this choice:

Twinx1024-3200c2 or 3700 or 4000, with the 3700 called (OC) and the 4000 (Massive OC) the price range is steep aswell for the 3200c2 you pay arround 350 euro's and the 4000 +450 euro.

Anyone have a hint for me what is best, my computer is 100% games and i use an ATI radeon 9700pro as video. Thanks in advance.

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lhgpoobaa

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It depends on your needs.
I assume the 2.8Ghz processor is one that uses the 200(800)FSB?
If that is so, and you dont plan on overclocking, then two sticks of PC3200 will be a perfect match for your system.

If you do plan on overclocking then getting faster PC3500/3700/4000 ram might be advisible.

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I am going for the 800fsb, and looking at the Corsair site i can use 3200 for normal, 3700 for OC en 4000 for uber OC, i dont know a thing about Oc but the new MSI motherboard has an setting with you can OC the machine from the bios, with setting like best General, colonel,captain, sergeant depending on your hardware it will work ok or bad and in that case you have to lower the Oc.

But if you mean manually Oc i dont know how and i that case i will not do manually OC.

The simms i have in mind are the 1gig Twinx1024-3200c from Corsair.

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Captain Ovious says it it works like this.

The P4's that run on the 800fsb (200Mhz X 4) work best with matching ram... in this case dual sticks of PC3200 fufill its bandwidth requirements perfectly.

As the multipliers of all Intel chips are locked, the only way you can overclock is to raise the fsb speed.
When you raise the fsb, its best to have the ram at the same speed also...

So with overclocking PC3200 may get a little further than 200Mhz, but not by terribly much. Thus the Captain recommends you should get PC3500 or PC3700.
The captain really doesn't recommend PC4000 as its just overclocked PC3700 with more lax memory timings.

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wouldn't you say pc3700 is just pc3500 with relaxed timmings?

Captin obv. what happened to speaking in 3rd person?


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Captain Obvious apologises. Its been a long day and it's late.

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Thanks all for the replies, i think i will go for the 3700 simms. 1 more question:

With my setup MSi Nea-fis2r/1 gig corsair simms, ati radeon 9700pro, intel p4 2.8 ghz 800fbs and some bios OC will the default cooler on my CPU be enough or do you guys advice to buy the tray version and manually put a better cooler on it.

I aslo use the A-open Big tower HX-08.

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You should be able to get 3.0+ ghz on the stock heatsink, maybe more maybe less, it all depends. If you want to really overclock it then yes i recomend a bigger heatsink.

BTW memory sticks are now called DIMMS, SIMMs died with edo :frown:


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